'A powerful economic force': How clean energy delivered 10 per cent of global economic growth last year

James Murray
clock • 7 min read
'A powerful economic force': How clean energy delivered 10 per cent of global economic growth last year

New analysis from the IEA details how clean energy has already become a key component of the world's most successful economies, and green heavy industries could follow in its wake

For much of the past 20 years, clean energy has been regarded as something of a niche concern - a well-meaning but ultimately marginal addition to the wider, and still fossil fuel-reliant, energy industry....

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

James Murray
Author spotlight

James Murray

View profile
More from James Murray

IRENA: 'Electrification and renewables must accelerate dramatically'

'Investors are not abandoning sustainability': Three quarters of retail investors expect sustainability to inform decisions

More on Energy

IRENA: 'Electrification and renewables must accelerate dramatically'
Energy

IRENA: 'Electrification and renewables must accelerate dramatically'

International Renewable Energy Agency warns clean energy transition off track to meet global climate goals

James Murray
James Murray
clock 13 October 2026 • 4 min read
SmartestEnergy and Zenco partner to launch UK's first seaweed-powered biomethane plant
Energy

SmartestEnergy and Zenco partner to launch UK's first seaweed-powered biomethane plant

SmarestEnergy has signed a long-term deal to bring green gas from a new seaweed-powered plant to market and feed it into the grid

Amber Rolt
clock 13 October 2026 • 2 min read
At COP31, countries must lay their electrification plans on the table
Energy

At COP31, countries must lay their electrification plans on the table

Countries must come to COP and set out specific plans for how they will remove the barriers and make the infrastructure investments that businesses need to electrify the global economy, writes WBCSD's CEO and president Peter Bakker

Peter Bakker, WBCSD
clock 12 October 2026 • 4 min read